In this race, the prey experience strong selective pressure to evolve better adaptations to avoid being eaten. At the same time, predators must capture sufficient food to survive and reproduce ...

Cuttlefish aren’t just masters of disguise – they're illusionists of the sea. Researchers discovered that broadclub ...

While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic skin display to avoid detection in the last moments of approach, ...

Professor Richard Fortey looks at the predatory characteristics of the starfish and the dog whelk and the protective adaptations their prey have developed. The starfish use their sticky tube feet ...

Predator-prey cycles show the natural rise and fall of numbers of predators and prey over time. All organisms in a food web depend upon each other and changes to one can affect the others.

It can occur between species that are predator and prey, competitors, or even between organisms linked by mutually beneficial symbiosis. One well-documented example of an arms race adaptation is ...

"It provided key insights into the prey capture strategies of early parasitoid wasps ... evolution and suggests that these ...

One of the world’s most skilled underwater predators has been filmed using complex "illusions" to mesmerise its prey before ...

The Alabama Wildlife Center Birds of Prey Program is designed to educate students on identifying raptors through their unique ...

Lead author Dr Matteo Santon from the University of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences said: "Camouflage has predominantly been studied as an adaptation that prey use to hamper their ...